Vernon,
In a recent post you combined your observations of interesting numerical
properties of Genesis 1:1 with a number of YEC arguments. I don't know
that any OEC's on this list agree that there is any connection. I have
never seen any indication that anyone on this list does not believe in the
truth of Gen. 1:1, but I doubt that their belief in the truth of that
verse stems from the numerical properties of its letters.
In an earlier thread that you started someone mentioned the story of a
conversation between Hardy and Ramanujan about the number 1729, which
Ramanujan thought to be very interesting because it is the smallest
integer that is the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways. This
number has a number of other properties of the type that you would
consider interesting, especially since several of them relate to its
representation in base 10. 1729=19x91, the factors being the two possible
permutations of its first and last digits. Both these factors are
differences of consecutive cubes. Their difference is 72, the second and
third digits of 1729. Both 91-19=72 and 91+19=110 are doubles of
triangular numbers. 91 is itself a triangular number. 19 is also the sum
of the digits of 1729. 1729=7x13x19, the product of three evenly spaced
primes. I am sure that you could come up with others if you spent enough
time on it. My guess is that if you had found this number associated with
Gen. 1:1, you would have found a way to use it to make the sort of claims
that you have made using the numbers that you did find there, but you
would not be so inclined if you found it in secular literature.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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